Twenty-four pages of Christmas color-by-number, each one built around a cheerful kawaii-style character or seasonal scene. The subjects read immediately — a penguin in a red hat, a gingerbread man with icing details, Santa Claus with his bag, a round-faced reindeer, a snowman with a scarf, gift boxes stacked in a pile, a decorated Christmas tree, snowflakes on a dark background. The colored dot key printed below each image uses between five and ten distinct colors, so the finished pages are genuinely colorful rather than the washed-out results you sometimes get from overly simple number keys.
The kawaii drawing style — rounded bodies, oversized heads, small simplified features — makes the subjects naturally appealing to younger kids without requiring them to handle intricate detail. Most regions are large enough for a five-year-old to fill without constant corrections, though the snowflake and background-pattern pages have smaller sections that will challenge a second grader more than a kindergartener. This set covers enough ground that you can easily differentiate within a class or between siblings. Everything here is free to download and easy to print.
Free Printable Color by Number Christmas Coloring Pages
This collection includes 24 printable color by number Christmas coloring pages featuring a wide range of holiday characters and scenes drawn in a kawaii cartoon style. Pages include a penguin in a Santa hat, a reindeer head portrait, a snowman with a knitted scarf, a cat in holiday gear, a festive creature with horns and candy cane, a gnome or elf figure, a polar bear with gifts, Santa Claus in full coat, wrapped gift boxes, a gingerbread man with icing, a doe reindeer, snowflake compositions, a Christmas tree with ornaments, star and holiday pattern pages, and several additional character portraits. Each page includes a color-dot reference key at the bottom. All pages print on standard US Letter paper.
Who Are These Christmas Color by Number Pages Best For?
Kindergarteners will find the simpler character pages — the penguin, the snowman, Santa Claus — very approachable. Those designs have fewer distinct regions and the sections are large enough that a child who’s five or six can fill them cleanly without constant frustration. The color keys use dots rather than written color names, so even a child who hasn’t yet read color words reliably can participate by matching the dot to a crayon.
Early elementary kids in grades one and two will get more out of the pages with busier compositions — the Christmas tree with ornaments, the snowflake patterns, the stacked gift boxes. Those pages have more sections and a higher color count, which turns the activity into more of a sustained project than a quick task. A seven- or eight-year-old who finishes the simpler pages in ten minutes will find the denser ones take closer to twenty or thirty.
In a classroom setting, this collection is useful throughout December — the 24-page count means a teacher can hand out one page per day as an Advent-style activity without repeating subjects. Homeschool families can use them the same way, spacing them across the weeks leading up to the holiday.
Interesting Christmas Facts to Share While Coloring
Reindeer are the only deer species where females also grow antlers. In most deer species, only males grow antlers. Reindeer does grow antlers too, which means that Santa’s reindeer — who pull the sleigh on December 24th — are actually likely to be female, since male reindeer typically shed their antlers before winter.
The gingerbread man as a treat dates to at least the 1500s. Gingerbread in various forms has been made in Europe for centuries, but the shaped gingerbread figure decorated with icing was popularized in part by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel,” which made gingerbread houses a widely recognized image. Queen Elizabeth I of England is said to have had gingerbread figures made in the likeness of visiting dignitaries.
Penguins do live in cold climates, but not at the North Pole. Despite their association with winter imagery on Christmas cards, all penguin species live in the Southern Hemisphere. The North Pole is home to polar bears, not penguins — an easy mix-up that kids enjoy catching once they know.
Snowflakes always have six sides, but no two are exactly alike. The six-sided structure comes from the way water molecules arrange themselves when they freeze. Each snowflake takes a different path through the atmosphere, encountering slightly different temperatures and humidity levels, which causes its branches to grow in unique patterns. A single snowflake contains roughly 10 quintillion water molecules.
Creative Christmas Coloring and Craft Ideas
Advent Calendar Set
Print 24 pages and place each one in a numbered envelope or small bag — one per day from December 1st through Christmas Eve — for a homemade coloring advent calendar.
Holiday Card Insert
After finishing a smaller character page, trim it to fit inside a folded card and give the colored artwork as a handmade insert with a written message on the back.
Color Swap Challenge
Print the same page twice. Color one using the original key, and color the other using a completely different set of colors — then compare which version looks more “Christmas” and why.
Gingerbread Recipe Companion
Color the gingerbread man page while actual gingerbread bakes. Talk through what goes into the recipe — ginger, cinnamon, molasses — while working on the page, then decorate the real cookies with icing using the same colors as the finished artwork.
Snowflake Science
After coloring a snowflake page, look at photographs of real snowflakes under magnification. Count the sides, then try to draw an original six-sided snowflake design on plain paper.
Classroom Gift Wrap
Color a full set of pages and use them as decorative gift wrap for small presents — roll the finished sheet around a box and tie with ribbon.
Character Name Story
After coloring a character page, give the character a name and write three sentences about where they live and what they do on Christmas Eve — attaching the story to the back of the finished page.
How to Print These Christmas Color by Number Pages
Each page downloads as a PDF formatted for standard US Letter (8.5 × 11 inches) and also prints on A4 without cropping. Standard 20 lb copy paper works well for crayons and colored pencils. Print in grayscale — the color dot key at the bottom remains easy to read in black and white, and the numbered regions print with full contrast on any printer setting.
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